al-skel/home/.config/awesome/vicious/widgets/os.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
--  * (c) 2010, Adrian C. <anrxc@sysphere.org>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local pairs = pairs
local tonumber = tonumber
local io = { popen = io.popen }
local math = { ceil = math.ceil }
local los = { getenv = os.getenv }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
local string = {
  gsub = string.gsub,
  match = string.match
}
-- }}}


-- OS: provides operating system information
-- vicious.widgets.os
local os = {}


-- {{{ Operating system widget type
local function worker(format)
  local system = {
    ["ostype"]    = "N/A",
    ["hostname"]  = "N/A",
    ["osrelease"] = "N/A",
    ["username"]  = "N/A",
    ["entropy"]   = "N/A",
    ["entropy_p"] = "N/A"
  }

  -- Linux manual page: uname(2)
  local kernel = helpers.pathtotable("/proc/sys/kernel")
  for k, v in pairs(system) do
    if kernel[k] then
      system[k] = string.gsub(kernel[k], "[%s]*$", "")
    end
  end

  -- BSD manual page: uname(1)
  if system["ostype"] == "N/A" then
    local f = io.popen("uname -snr")
    local uname = f:read("*line")
    f:close()

    system["ostype"], system["hostname"], system["osrelease"] =
      string.match(uname, "([%w]+)[%s]([%w%p]+)[%s]([%w%p]+)")
  end

  -- Linux manual page: random(4)
  if kernel.random then
    -- Linux 2.6 default entropy pool is 4096-bits
    local poolsize = tonumber(kernel.random.poolsize)

    -- Get available entropy and calculate percentage
    system["entropy"]   = tonumber(kernel.random.entropy_avail)
    system["entropy_p"] = math.ceil(system["entropy"] * 100 / poolsize)
  end

  -- Get user from the environment
  system["username"] = los.getenv("USER")

  return {system["ostype"], system["osrelease"], system["username"],
          system["hostname"], system["entropy"], system["entropy_p"]}
end
-- }}}

return setmetatable(os, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })